Blog Day 59: Thursday 21 May 2020

Just filling in a bit of time until my Zoom conference with the Shrine Education staff and my fellow Thursday PM volunteer crew starts.  It will be interesting to see if the Shrine staff have any opinion on when the Shrine and similar institutions will be reopening.

It is National Volunteer week and in normal circumstances we would be having a nice afternoon tea provided by the Shrine.  Alas not to be this year.  Although, as well as the nice letter from the Guv last week, this week I received a nice letter from the Shrine CEO (Dean Lee) thanking me and my fellow volunteers for our service and enclosing a commemorative lapel badge. Nice of him to invite me around to his place for a barbie as well.

I have to go and get changed, I am putting a shirt and tie on and my Shrine jacket.  Although it is a Zoom meeting one must maintain one's standards.  Now here is a funny thing, prior to putting on a clean shirt I put on some deodorant, I am the only person here!!

And another funny thing, my shirt has shrunk, I had difficulty in doing up the top button so that I could wear a tie.  Damned virus!

Zoom conference has finished, it was great to catch up with the Shrine staff and fellow Thursday PM volunteers.  

On a different subject.  In a hundred years time when various historians and the like are looking at our response to this virus they will be saying "you had how many layers of government"? 

I notice that some sites are saying that the world wide infections has broken through the 5 million mark.  The WHO have announced today that the US, Russia, Brazil and India are the current hotspots with Peru, Chile and Mexico likely to join them.  Looks like I might have some countries to add to my weekly spreadsheet on Monday.

Corona Virus Daily Stats: Day 136

Vic: 1,581 infected (+1 from previous day) - 18 deaths (increase 0)
Aus: 7,081 infected (+2 from previous day) - 100 deaths (increase 0)
Recovered: 6,470
World: 4,995,712

Comments

  1. Andrew22 May 2020 at 13:30

    I think the numbers are getting so high now that they are losing their impact - a bit stalinist I know, but when you look at all the protests around lockdowns, I think people are unable to appreciate the scale and just want to go back to normal.

    On another note - the VCAA have flipped again and now VCE exams will start pretty much at the normal time of the first week of November. Looks like school is starting to go back to normal. Not sure for how long though

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    1. Graeme22 May 2020 at 16:10

      Good luck for the return to school next week.

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